Frostmetal Clan coming in January (Patreon)

Update: we started recording a 3d sketching video for a variant of Frostmetal orcish armor. At this early stage Zbrush is used freely as sketching and concepting tool to find interesting shapes and composition. Refining and cleaning will happen in a later stage. Sadly, Zbrush crashed during the export so we saved only one part of the record. Next time we will use a dedicated software for sure :)
Video Here: https://youtu.be/AYmunTvbGr4

Hello guys!
We hope you are having a wonderful week.
As the testprinting team is working hard on the next release coming in December, the Sylvan Knights Set, we are already planning ahead for January.

As we mentioned before, for the moment we are switching from "choose a theme" Poll to "help us making the best Set we are inspired to do".

For January 2021, if we have not a real Orc invasion (that would not surprise us at the moment!), we are really inspired to finally bring life to the Frostmetal Clan, a set of Orcs and Ogres from the frozen lands of Skutagaard, dressed in dark heavy armour, large fur cloak, tusks, skulls and so on.  Th e Frostmetal Orcs and Ogre are also damned by an ancient Oath, wich makes them immortal and gives them unholy powers: we will make sure this blackguard-deathknight vibe is visible on the sculpts :)

A lazy screengrab of SOME of our old Frostmetal sketches.
These are OLD, we really will make sure the theme is better developed it more.

Having no Theme Poll will ensure that we are working on something we crave to sculpt, give us few more days to plan, not rushing some late heroes and so on.
The truth is that being Patreon subscription monthly based, we need to make sure the full set is ready in time for the following month, running like crazies. For the now larger sets to be supported and tested multiple times, we have about till day 20 to make a fleshed out 3d Printable Release. Sets like the ones we do were usually handled for several months by large companies who counts many artists ^^
This is not easy, it's a challenge every month and we costantly feel like running against time; but we always manage it at the end, and it's really satisfying to finally see the final set coming up, expecially when you guys post amazing photos of prints and paintjobs.

Still, we will post many Polls (and read every Comment) to ask you feedback about the various Sets. What kind of cavalry is better? Wich Weapon would you like to be included? What class should be the heroes? And so on.

What about the missing Poll options?
To make sure no one is left behind, we are unlocking the famous Greatgoblin ( bugbear proxies) and Shortfolk (gnomes/halflings) as FREE bonus models, Goal based. The fist batch should be unlocked really soon!

Future Sets

About the Sets that will come after the Frostmetal, we are now inspired to try something new: models themed on a Adventure and not only encounter/themed groups.
Something like "Siege on Troll Castle" having player Heroes riding a Troll fortress. let's see how things evolve, we will sure ask about this and make polls in future^^

A frostmetal early anatomy sculpt. This could easy be twised into a Frostmetal Orc or Ogre depending on the situation. Obviously they will come covered in Armor and decorations!

FROSTMETAL POLL: More Orcs or more Ogre?

Having a limited time to make the Sets, we'd like if you crave for more Frostmetal Orcs or Frostmetal Ogre.
For the Oni Clan, that had oriental themed Orcs and Ogre-like creatures, we had 4 orcish Oni, and 2 Ogre-like Oni, the Kyojin. Heroes were splitted in half: Yoshigruzu the Orc and the Shaman Ogre with two heads, Goraku.
Having also variants for man and ladies models, having 2 different races makes organization even more harder ^^ we had only one modular lady Ogre and one modular male Ogre for example.

For the Frostmetal Clan, would you like to be the Set more focused on Orcs, more on Ogre, exactly the same number of Orcs and Ogre (3 and 3 modular, 1 and 1 heroes)?
Or would you like to have only 1 race for the Frostmetal Clan, making it a Orc only tribe, or a Ogre only set?

Scaling up Orcs into Ogre will surely be not impossible, same for the opposite.
About style, Frostmetal Ogre would be larger (like our Ogre Marauder) and generally a bit more fatter, while Orcs would be about the size of our Orc Barbarians Set, more muscular but smaller than Ogre.

Thank you so much, we really need your help :)

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